negligible

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

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From negligence/negligent + -ible, as if from New Latin *negligibilis, from Latin neglegō (“to neglect”) + -ibilis (“-ible”).

But Racine Junior is negligible. — The Beginnings of Poetry, Francis Barton Gummere
The duke was a negligible quantity. — The Place of Honeymoons, Harold MacGrath
Their influence at the outset was negligible[117]. — Great Britain and the American Civil War, Ephraim Douglass Adams

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